Esther TOP. Since no reason for the variation is discernible, and the proposed slight change of text improves construction and restores uniformity, it is probably to be adopted. preaching the gospel. What is going on here? Psalm 41:10. The situation is described as in the preceding parts. The dry and thirsty land there and the rush of waters here mean the same thing, so flexible is nature in a poets hands. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, Where is your God? Thats why a singable psalter is good to keep around or a hymnbook with the whole array of emotions. So thats a sermon for me, today. Psalm 3: You are a shield around me, O Lord, my Glorious One, who lifts up my head. Once more, too, the higher self repeats its half-rebuke, half-encouragement. PHILIP A. NORDELL, D. D., New London, Conn. Verse 8: By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God my salvation [or Savior] and my God. And even though he says it looks as if God has forgotten him, he never stops believing in the absolute sovereignty of God over all his adversity. However, he came back to the same expression of confidence with which he ended the first stanza. Psalm 42 essentially a lament, with Psalm 43 forming the Psalmists prayer in response to the lament. The heading above verse one tells us that Psalm 100 is a psalm for giving thanks. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Hope in God. But perhaps Scripture meant us to consider in the stag not this point only, but another also. "Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other" ( Psalm 85:10 ). For an abyss is a depth that cannot be reached or comprehended; and it is principally applied to a great body of water. A quick reading of this Psalm suggests there are two divisions: (1) vv. It is the prerogative of faith to make pictures drawn by memory pale beside those painted by hope. In other words, all his crashing and tumultuous and oppressing and discouraging circumstances are the waves of God. He needed to continue to hope in God until then. A. Without it we die. The repeated taunt of his enemies would hopefully move God to deliver him (cf. Hear what else there is in the hart. And because he has the Lord for his shepherd, he does not lack anything he needs. The two psalms (Psalms 42:1-11, Psalms 43:1-5) are plainly one. For we find in the hart an emblem of swiftness. Therefore it is from the land of Jordan I have remembered you, and from the hill; observe, not of the great hill, that you may make of the little hill a great one: for whoever exalts himself shall be abased, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. It is God who justifies. 4) Paul's sermon at the synagogue (Acts 13:16-41) involves an exposition of the prophecies of the Old Testament and a revealing of the hearts of his listeners: They are a people who may become scoffers and eventually unbelieving. There are at least three reasons why we can assume psalms 42 and 43 were originally joined together. What is meant by like the hart? The "soul" is feminine in Hebrew, and is here compared to the female deer, for "pants" is the feminine form of the verb, though its noun is masculine. Let Him deliver you, if He can. You may see not my flesh merely, but even my bones. Esther 1 - Lifestyles of the Rich and Foolish. THE second book of the Psalter is characterised by the use of the Divine name "Elohim" instead of "Jehovah." Why hope? Let there be no sloth in your running; run with all your might: long for the fountain with all your might. A Primer on Prayer - Psalm 28. [Note: VanGemeren, p. JESUS URGES US TO DESIRE ETERNAL LIFE Thats what hes seeking jubilant hope. EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) . the office of keepers of the door of the sanctuary had been hereditary in their family from the time of Moses. It is better therefore to translate "hind" than "hart." Without it we die. Injustice is done it, if it is regarded merely as the longing of a Levite for approach to the sanctuary. Romans6:12-13 I admire the sight of the bodily members warring in the service of the soul that serves God.And wonderful though the tabernacle be, yet when I come to the house of God, I am even struck dumb with astonishment. Why have You rejected me? Follow along with me as I read Psalm 42: To the choirmaster. [Note: Bullock, p. For I am alarmed by the Apostle's saying, Let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. Asaph wrote Psalms 50, and Solomon composed Psalms 72. The writer viewed his troubles like waves cascading down on him, as if he were standing under a waterfall. And He may give us them back if they no longer get in the way of allowing Him to meet our desires.) For He who threatens does not let His judgments fall upon us, but keeps them suspended over us. Thus tremulous, timid, mobile, it is beautifully compared to a hind. Everything We Need - Psalm 23. It is not a question asked for enlightenments sake but is an exclamation of impatience, if not of rebuke. It is my God that is the saving health of my countenance. Hes confirming his faith in the midst of turmoil and discouragement by remembering how real God was in corporate worship. Deep calls to deep with the voice of Your water-spouts. Why, when already longing for those things, have I been cast down to these, by the weight and burden of my iniquity? Let this be allowed; and this meaning retain its place in the Church; a place both truthful and sanctioned by usage. While they say daily unto me, Where is your God? 17. Contact information. When would my soul attain to that object of its search, which is above my soul, if my soul were not to pour itself out above itself? From the little hill, and from the land of Jordan. He was blogging and trying to find something to get a girl off his mind. It is what church historian Martin Marty might call a "wintery" faith. Of that house he speaks in another Psalm, after he had put a certain abstruse and difficult question to himself (viz., why is it that it generally goes well with the wicked on earth, and ill with the good? Preaching Christ from Psalms: Foundations for Expository Sermons in the Christian Year by SIdney Greidanus Publisher: Eerdmans , 2016 ISBN: 9780802873668 3 ratings Digital $26.99 Digital (Group) $26.99 Overview The facts on which faith feeds abide while faith fluctuates. As water from a brook sustains a deer physically, so God Himself sustains people spiritually (cf. send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.' . He prays now; he had only remembered and complained and said that he would pray before. Men may speak, may be seen by the operations of their members, may be heard speaking in conversation: but whose thought is penetrated, whose heart seen into? Individual rather than corporate. Decisions made according to Scripture yield peace - Psalm 119:101 B. Can think of it as a combination of our body, mind and emotions. Psalm 22 is an excellent choice for a sermon on Good Friday because, according to Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34, Jesus, "the man of sorrows" (Is 53:3), voiced the haunting opening words of this magnificent psalm, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" in his dying moment on the cross of Golgotha. There is no necessity to conclude that these were heathens, though the taunt is usually put into heathen lips {Psalms 79:10; Psalms 52:2} but it would be quite as natural from co-religionists, flouting his fervour and personal grasp of God and taking his sorrows as tokens of Gods abandonment of him. religion or Christ. The waves in what I already feel, the overhangings in that You denouncest. And may He grant our desire through the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. I will say unto God, You are my lifter up. For how can it be that in the midst of these tempests of the world, you should pass through the whole of that sea, without suffering? The writer remembered with great delight the times when he found spiritual refreshment at the sanctuary in Jerusalem, but he was not able to return there yet. Therefore the psalm must be pre-exilic; and while there is no certainty attainable as to date, it may at least be said that the circumstances of the singer present more points of contact with those of the supposed Korachite follower of Davids fortunes on the uplands across Jordan than with those of any other of the imaginary persons to whom modern criticism has assigned the poem. Rich Man and Lazarus Sermon Outline. There he understood of the last things; and solved the question concerning the prosperity of the unrighteous, and the sufferings of the righteous. The psalmist paints his calamities as storming on him in dismal continuity, each "flood" seeming to summon its successor. The psalmist was far from Jerusalem and the central sanctuary. I think an abyss may not unreasonably be understood of man, of whom it is said elsewhere, Man shall come to a deep heart, and God shall be exalted. The Wedding Psalm (Audio) Download File. God was not providing for his needs just then. He does not show that He is your Helper, unless tribulation come, from whence you must be rescued by Him who promised it to you in the day-time. But even these bitter sarcasms are less bitter than the remembrance of "happier things," which is his "sorrows crown of sorrow." Has experienced the joy of long refreshing drinks in a cool mountain stream. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? And whither shall I flee from Your Spirit? : 42:2-6) The . Regrettably, I can't reply to every letter, but I greatly appreciate your feedback especially notifications about typographical errors and inappropriate ads. Hope thou in God; for I will yet confess unto Him Psalm 41:11. At our very core we have a desire that only God can meet. In tribulation no man has leisure to hear: attend, when it is well with you; hear, when it is well with you; learn, when you are in tranquillity, the discipline of wisdom, and store up the word of God as you do food. That is the worlds way with the calamities of a devout man, whose humble cry, "My God," it resents as presumption or hypocrisy. Psalms 43, 66, 67, , 71 are anonymous. Thats why it pains me that were not presently able to be together. In verses 5 and 11, he calls God "my salvation and my God.". Look at programs man has instituted to build the churches. LEARNING TO DESIRE Who is to condemn? With wise resolve he finds in dejection a reason for nestling closer to God. Psalms 42:3). restoring the joy. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? The word forgotten is an overstatement. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) Notice that the Psalmist responds to his circumstances at one point by asking God, Why? Verse 9: I say to God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? Psalms 42:5). Lecture 1: Expository Preaching of the Psalms - Dr. Steven Lawson The Master's Seminary 104K subscribers Subscribe 598 Share Save 45K views 10 years ago TMS Archives: Expository Preaching. Strip away allow God to strip away all the things that give us temporary satisfaction. It "pants" and "thirsts," is "cast down" and disquieted; it is "poured out"; it can be bidden to "hope." "My soul is cast down; therefore let me remember Thee." To recall past joys adds stings to present grief, but to remember God brings an anodyne for the smart. For I should be in error were I to seek for my God without the place of His tabernacle. Tweed. If it is, the second part of the psalm is also conformed to the other two in regard to its not beginning with the Divine name. This morning, I want us to take just a few minutes to consider Psalm 42. From that everlasting perpetual festivity, a certain sweet and melodious strain strikes on the ears of the heart, provided only the world do not drown the sounds. The psalmist was thirsty for God. For there is some great mystery in the matter that the name sons of Korah is given to Christians. The "soul" is the seat of emotions and desires. The serpents are your vices, destroy the serpents of iniquity; then will you long yet more for the Fountain of Truth. The true counterpoise to its excess lies in directing it to God and in making Him the object of hope and patient waiting. 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. Hope in God: for I will confess unto Him. That lovely metaphor has touched the common heart as few have done, and the solitary singers plaint has fitted all devout lips. This man was cut off from worship of the living God. * By Rev. Why, that the wicked, when reprieved here, are reserved for punishments without end; and the good when they suffer here, are being tried in order that they may in the end obtain the inheritance. In his prayer, he would also ask God the reason for his continuing physical and emotional distress. Why then does Korah stand for Christ? He may also have written those bearing the notation, "of the sons of Korah" (Psalms 42, 44-49). The psalm falls into three parts, each closing with the same refrain. Tries to ignore thirst. Chained " whoooa is me I'm miserable " (5.) (Doesnt mean they are bad. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. 63.]. For many of us other desires can get in the way of us really desiring God. For no one runs to the remission of sins, except he who is dissatisfied with himself; no one runs to the remission of sins, but he who confesses himself a sinner; no one confesses himself a sinner, except by humbling himself before God. THE VANITY OF SELF EFFORT. Update: Here is my sermon on Psalm 6 (video and manuscript) For were it to rest in itself, it would not see anything else beyond itself; and in seeing itself, would not, for all that, see God. Those men so patient and courageous for the name of Christ, how often was it said to them, Where is your God? 428.] I know this is a given but prayer prepares the preacher's heart for the studying of God's word (1 Peter 2:1-2) and it prepares the preacher's mind to receive clarity and insight into God's word (Psalm 119:18). (2) Psalm 43 has no title for it. The deer that doesnt mind a sip or two of water if it happens to come their way or it isnt too inconvenient to look for it. It would be good if all of us were so composed and careful in the expression of our discouragements that we never said anything amiss. It is sometimes right to pray for the defeat of enemies. Where, I pray, is your God? For it is written in a certain passage, The mercy of the Lord is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Psalm 127. So, the psalmist affirms Gods sovereign love for him in and through all the troubles. That is to say, because God is mercy and faithfulness, the return of the psalmist to the home of his heart is sure. "Mizar" is probably the name of a hill otherwise unknown, and specifies the singers locality more minutely, though not helpfully to us. Hope and trust hold the field. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99 1. May the Lord increase our hunger and our thirst to see the face of God. Hear what else there is in the hart. When shall I come and appear before God? What makes this so beautiful, and so crucial for us, is that hes not thirsting mainly for relief from his threatening circumstances. 12. The unity is vouched by the considerations already noticed, and by the incompleteness of Psalms 42:1-11 without such triumphant close and of Psalms 43:1-5 without such despondent beginning. Dont compromise! The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. It is on my own account it is disquieted. But seeing, brethren, so long as we are at home in this body, we are absent from the Lord; 2Corinthians5:6 and the corruptible body presses down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weighs down the mind that muses on many things; Wisdom9:15 even though we have some way or other dispersed the clouds, by walking as longing leads us on, and for a brief while have come within reach of that sound, so that by an effort we may catch something from that house of God, yet through the burden, so to speak, of our infirmity, we sink back to our usual level, and relapse to our ordinary state. Psalm 27. putting God first. The separation, however, is old, since it is found in the LXX. This same voice in another passage said, I said in my trance (i.e., in my rapture, when he had seen some great thing or other), I said in my trance, I am cast out of the sight of Your eyes. + Funeral Homilies Let there be no sloth in your running; run with all your might: long for the fountain with all your might. They who trouble me cast me in the teeth. In Book 2, the titles identify David as the writer of 18 psalms (Psalms 51-65, 68-70). revival. I shall not want for nourishment, "He makes me to lie down in green pastures." 2. When away from the stream makes it a priority to rediscover it.. Nature reflects the poets moods, and overmastering emotion sees its own analogues everywhere. Naturally this transition strophe is marked by the mingling of both. Has learnt to put up with less. Clearly the superscriptions rested upon some tradition or knowledge, else defective information would not have been acknowledged as it is in this one; but some name would have been coined to fill the gap. Romans8:24-25. They are great ones, severe, hard to bear; but would they were all. [Note: See Swindoll, pp. Let then my insulting enemies now say, Where is your God? 9. The actual return to the Temple is desired because thereby new praise will be occasioned. Who shall bring any charge against you as Gods elect? Psalms 43:2 looks back to Psalms 42:9, the former clause in each verse being practically equivalent, and the second in 43 (Psalms 43:2), being a quotation of the second in Psalms 42:9, with a variation in the form of the verb to suggest more vividly the picture of weary, slow, dragging gait, fit for a man clad in mourning garb. For what is it thirsty? Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (Heb. When Life Gets Slippery - Psalm 73. PROPOSITION: To study the story of the rich man and Lazarus and notice: 1) The characters, 2) The circumstances, 3) The cries of the rich man, 4) The conclusions of the story. More deceptive is when weve tried to get our deepest desires met by things that are of themselves good: for example, relationships, careers, serving others. For example: Many ingenious attempts have been made to explain the name either as symbolical or as a common noun, and not a proper name, but these need not be dealt with here. I. Some of them were among the faithful adherents of David at Ziklag, {1 Chronicles 12:6} and in the new model of worship inaugurated by him the Korachites were doorkeepers and musicians. Second, in the midst of his discouragement, he affirms God's sovereign love for him. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. The second part of the psalm takes up the question of the refrain, and first reiterates with bitter emphasis that the soul is bowed down, and then pours out once more the stream of reasons for dejection. God Our Refuge And Strength (Audio) Download File. How much was this cast in the teeth of the Martyrs! 1. The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit. Can put forward good arguments for not believing in water or having any desire for it. For just as worldly prosperity is signified by the day, adversity by the night, so again in another way worldly prosperity is expressed by the summer, adversity by the winter. inasmuch as he points with his finger to some stone, and says, Lo, there is my God! Therefore we are warned to be like the ant. Here goes. For it is the strong members that are the bones; and sometimes even those that are strong sink under their temptations. Each Monday brings a set of at least seven outlines to your e-mail box. My God is the saving health of my countenance. Hermon means anathematizing. He designed us that way. I have within a victim to sacrifice; I have within an incense to place on the altar; I have within a sacrifice wherewith to propitiate my God. Wherefore so? It was God whom he addressed, who remembered him from the land of Jordan and Hermon. I will go, he says, into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even unto the house of God! Numbers 26:10-11) were distinguished musicians (1 Chronicles 6:31-48). a Levite, led the festal march to the Temple, and in listening in fancy again to the shrill cries of joy which broke from the tumultuous crowd. In his sorrow he could still think of Him at intervals as the help of his countenance and call Him "my God." So once more the wave of emotion rolls over the psalmist, but with a new aspect which makes all the difference. For to account for his fears, in the midst of those things, which he now knows, having come after a sort to the understanding of them, he has been looking behind him again in anxiety, lest the enemy be stealing upon him: he cannot yet say, I am made whole every whit. This too proceeds from that longing, of which in another place comes that cry, One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. No doubt the psalmist connected communion with God and presence in the Temple more closely together than they should do who have heard the great charter, "neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem"; but, however the two things were coupled in his mind, they were sufficiently separate to allow of approach by longing and prayer while distant in body, and the true object of yearning was not access to the Temple, but communion with the God of the Temple. The imagery is so usual that it needs no assumption of having been occasioned by the poets locality. The Hebrew would bear either meaning; but if the latter is adopted, all these psalms are anonymous. Not many of us can compose songs when were discouraged and weeping day and night. As for your fatigue in hearing, I am not greatly solicitous, since you see me also, who speak, toiling in the heat of these exertions. For in prosperity God commends to you His mercy, in case thou serve Him faithfully, for He frees you from tribulation; but it is in the night only that He declares His mercy to you, which He commended to you by day. It is a very elementary but necessary lesson for the conduct of life that emotion of all sorts, sad or glad, religious or other, needs rigid scrutiny and firm control, sometimes stimulating and sometimes chilling. Both psalms are individual laments. she must be up to something. When can I go and stand before him? Whither then shall I go from Your presence? Psalms 42 expresses the writers yearning for God. He doesnt feel jubilant hope. Nevertheless, it appears to me, my brethren, that such a longing is not fully satisfied even in the faithful in Baptism: but that haply, if they know where they are sojourning, and whither they have to remove from hence, their longing is kindled in even greater intensity. Does man call on man as God is called upon? So, at the end of verse 7, he says, All Your breakers and Your waves have gone over me.. With God is the fountain of Life; a fountain that shall never be dried up: in His Light is a Light that shall never be darkened. It is useless to speculate on its origin. This man was in exile and it depressed him. If by abyss we understand a great depth, is not man's heart, do you not suppose, an abyss? 6. The enemy is called a "loveless nation." So rather than prepare a sermon, I simply wrote a letter. And we are told in answer, that it is some festival. The angelic choir makes an eternal holiday: the presence of God's face, joy that never fails. Accept that we may need to make effort. To see those who were thought to have some stability, giving way under temptations, so that the rest of the weak brethren despair when they see those who are strong succumbing; how great, my brethren, are the dangers! 2 16 How to Prepare an Expository Sermon on [April, HOW TO PREPARE AN EXPOSITORY SERMON ON PSALMS XLII. Spiritual Depression - Psalm 42-43. Water the key theme in the Psalm. But isnt it amazing that hes singing his prayer!
